Jake Gyllenhaal talks about turning 30 and deciding what he wants to do (new PoP interviews)

Just one day to go until the star-studded premiere of Prince of Persia in Los Angeles. You will be able to see it livestreamed on WDW so do tune in for that. Jake Gyllenhaal and the other stars are due to arrive at 6pm local time. In the meantime, here is a brief look at some of the new bits and pieces to enjoy today - a week on from the London premiere.

I wrote my (non-spoilery) review of Prince of Persia over the weekend - if you haven't seen it yet, you can find it here.


We have a wonderful new interview with Jake, this time in the Irish Independent, in which he's in a thoughtful and relaxed mood. Here are a few choice bits, you can read much more here. "The appeal of playing this part for me was feeling that eight-year-old side of myself. I didn't really get the chance to in Brothers or Jarhead or Brokeback Mountain. I don't really think they were for eight-year-olds. This was really an opportunity to go to that side of myself which I felt was a little tired of taking myself so seriously."


"There is a bigger crew, a bigger movie, more journalists, more interviews, but answering questions about my personal life is still my choice, no matter how many questions come I still have an opportunity to decide whether I'm going to answer them."

"In my life right now I feel much more open and for the first time I feel like, 'This is my job.' It's what I do and it's what I love. My job requires certain things of me and there's no complaining involved. Previously I had ideas of what I thought an actor was supposed to do.

"At a certain point I went, 'Wait a second, I'm not really listening to myself. I'm doing something that I think people are supposed to do but what do I really enjoy?' Let me experience it and decide for myself before I start assuming one thing is cool and another thing is not."


"One of the things which got me into this movie was I went, 'This is really fun.' The younger version of me would have been, 'Oh no, I'm only going to do this movie with that person' or 'It's going to be about that and it's going to be tortured.' As I get a little older I'm like, 'You know what? I want to have fun.' I don't really take myself as seriously anymore and as I've opened myself up to those things I've realised this is an amazing job."



'Part of that realisation may come with age. He will be 30 in October [we know it's December] and regards that event as a "crossroads". "I feel honoured because I think life is precious and the more years you get you actually begin to learn. I feel that at 29 going into 30 I now have perspective behind me and in front of me. Whereas before I could only see in front of me. Now I'm like 'Oh, wow. Regret!' It feels like a big thing. They say in Ouarzazate [one of the Moroccan locations for Prince of Persia] it is the Gate of the Sahara. It feels a little bit like that in my life, like I'm entering a new gate."


'So, as he approaches his fourth decade, does he feel he has achieved the things he thought he would achieve when he was 20? "I didn't ever think I was going to be 30 when I was 20." What about 10 years from now? What are his aims for then? "I'm never going to be 40."'

Great to see another interview with this young chap - and Jake's not bad either...



Jake made someone's day with a wave in the Hollywood Hills this weekend - tomorrow many more will get to know what that's like!


Many thanks to IHJ for the pictures.